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9/13/01:

Toad's Place and
Irving Plaza shows cancelled. Possible rescheduling of Irving Plaza
show will be decided by 9/19. Here are the official details:

OYSTERHEAD CANCELS
SHOWS AT TOAD'S PLACE AND IRVING PLAZA

In light of the
tragic events that occurred yesterday, both OYSTERHEAD shows scheduled
for this weekend will not take place. The Toad's Place show, scheduled
for Friday, September 14, will not be rescheduled. Refunds for this
show may be obtained at the Toad's Place Box Office only beginning Monday,
September 17 at noon.
Refunds for the Irving Plaza show, scheduled for Saturday, September
15, may be obtained at point of purchase. Refunds for tickets purchased
at the Irving Plaza Box Office will be available beginning Thursday,
September 13 at noon. For tickets purchased over the phone or via the
Internet, please call Ticketmaster at 212.307.7171 to obtain a refund.
However, there is a possibility that the Irving Plaza show MAY be rescheduled
for a later date in advance of the Oysterhead tour that begins in late
October. If you are holding tickets to the September 15 show, you may
wish to hold them before getting a refund as all tickets to this show
would be honored at the rescheduled show. We will make an announcement
no later than Wednesday, September 19 as to whether the Irving Plaza
show will be rescheduled.
In addition to the above cancellations, we have changed the on-sale
dates of some of the OYSTERHEAD fall tour dates going on sale this weekend.
Please note new on-sale dates for the following cities (the Oysterhead
web site may not yet have updated information):
Ann Arbor: 9/21 at noon
Asheville: 9/21 at 10am
Camden: 9/22 at 10am
Lowell: 9/21 at 10am
Trey, Les, and Stewart, as well as everyone in the band's crew and staff,
extend their deepest sympathies and condolences to all of those affected
by this tragedy.

9/5/01:

Oyster season officially
started this weekend! The rule of thumb is only eat oysters in months
with "R" in them. Perhaps we'll never have the chance for
an Oysterhead summer tour.... ;) To welcome in Oyster season we've added
some fresh rawviews.

If you ordered Tickets-By-Mail,
you should have received an email confirmation of your order status
by now. The bulletin board system is not up yet, but as soon as we iron
out some technical difficulties you'll be the first to know.

In the meantime,
sign up for the oysterhead-talk discussion list,
and shoot the halfshell with some other fans.

We're experimenting
with the appearance of the website. THE OLD LINKS
were this color blue, THE NEW LINKS are
this color. Email us if you have a preference or idea for something
different (we will be sticking with the internet standard blue for links,
and websafe colors only, of course). Thanks!

8/30/01:

The opportunity
to order Tickets-By-Mail online ended last night at 11:59pm. According
to the confirmation email from OTBM, the orders will be filled in the
next couple days! ("As of now, you have not purchased any tickets,
but make sure that your card is ready to do so anytime between August
29th - August 31st.") We will have an extra ticket bulletin board
online very soon.went on sale today at noon for the Irving Plaza show
on Sept. 15th.

8/23/01 (12:45pm):

Tickets went on
sale today at noon for the Irving Plaza show on Sept. 15th. Reports
are disappointing, to say the least, regarding even the possibility
of getting tickets. The phone number listed on both the official Oysterhead.com
site and the Ticketmaster event page led to an automated ticketing system
that did not even list the event. Finding a menu that gave a choice
to speak to a real person resulted in a message saying you were connected
to an automated-only system, but to speak to an agent dial the same
number?!?! After finally reaching an agent at a ticketmaster outlet
for Northern New Jersey/NYC, they reported the show was completely sold
out.

Likewise, online
at the Ticketmaster website, using two different computers with ISDN
connections, not a single purchase opportunity ever happened, even within
seconds of the purchase page appearing. More often than not, the "We
are unable to fulfill your specific request" message would appear,
and when it didn't, the page would hang during receipt of the purchase
acceptance page, never fully receiving.

We hope at least
some fans were successful in getting tickets for Irving Plaza, and that
the underground ticket broker monopoly can be subverted.

8/21/01:

Official word at
last from Oysterhead! Confirmation of Fall Tour, Tickets-By-Mail info,
the new album The Grand Pecking Order (with MP3s!), and the Official
Taping Policy. The excitement is just beginning as we near the first
on sale date, Thursday, Sept. 23.

Fall
Tour turned out as last reported, with the correction of the first
two dates being in September, not October (Toad's on 9/14 and Irving
Plaza on 9/15). Lake Trout will be opening both nights. It's reported
on the official Oysterhead site that while the NYC show is part of the
CMJ
Music Marathon festival, most tickets will be up for sale to the
general public on Sept. 23rd. That's good news, since most CMJ events
are filled by CMJ participants (at $400-$500 pass prices!), and tough
tickets for non participants. We still expect to see the Irving Plaza
show sell out in a matter of minutes, so be ready with the speed-dial!

Tickets will be
available for the Oct/Nov shows via the Oysterhead Tickets-By-Mail
service online (similar to the test run of online ticket sales by phish.com
for the last Trey Anastasio Band tour). It's a six day period to order,
pure lottery with no benefit for earlier placed orders.

Details on the new
album, The Grand Pecking Order, are also confirmed, with the release
date set of October 2. Satisfy your hunger for fresh raw Oysterhead...
the official Oysterhead site has MP3
downloads of portions of three tracks, "Oz Is Ever Floating,"
"Shadow Of A Man, "Wield The Spade," and the entire song
"Mr. Oysterhead"!!! Please send us your send
us your reviews of these releases for inclusion on the Oysterhead.org
site. Check out reviews others have
sent.

Finally, tapers
(and traders alike) who were sweating the rumors of "no taping
at Oysterhead" can breathe easy, with the announcement of the Oysterhead
Audio Recording and Transfer Policy. Seems basically the same as
Phish, but you can read the fine print if that's what spins your reels.

It's going to be
an exciting Fall with all this fresh Oysterhead. Keep in touch with
Oysterhead.org for info and communication with fellow fans. And please
tell others about the oysterhead.org site. The more people know and
contribute, the better it will become. Thanks for your support!

8/20/01:

This appears to
be the tracklist for the first Oysterhead album, as extracted from a
now-missing page on the oysterhead.com site:

Produced by Oysterhead
Recorded by Oz Fritz at The Barn, Vermont, April 2001
Mixed by Toby Wright at The Plant, Sausalito, California, May-June 2001
Mastered by Stephen Marcussen for Marcussen Mastering, Hollywood, CA

CD: Elektra 62677-2 / LP: Elektra 62677-1

Reports indicate
Lake Trout has yet to announce
it's schedule for Sept. 14th and 15th. You decide what that means.
Or should we just get to the point?

These dates were
listed on the official site but not yet linked from the main page. See
http://www.oysterhead.com/tour/tour.html and http://www.oysterhead.com/news/news.html.

Update: the pages
are no longer accessible. Perhaps we'll have official word later today!

8/18/01:

The Oysterhead appearance
at the CMJ
Music Marathon has been confirmed for September 15th, at the Irving
Plaza, NYC. Tickets go on sale from TM on August 23, 12:00 PM. Click
Here for the Ticketmaster page concerning the event. Thanks to Eric
P. for the update.

8/17/01:

It appears Oysterhead
is expected to perform somewhere in NYC between Sept. 13-16 for the
CMJ
Music Marathon. The exact date and venue are still unknown. If you
hear more, please contact us!
Thanks to Paul S. for the tip.

8/15/01:

An update on the
rumored tour dates: The Seattle and Portland dates had at one point
shown up on a ticketmaster search, but don't now. That still seems to
indicate they are very likely (just still under wraps). One reader reports
that the American Theater in St. Louis may be closed.... Checks of other
venue calenders indicate that nothing has currently been scheduled for
the rumored tour date where applicable.

8/14/01:

Trey appears in
Relix Magazine, calling him "the
musical voice of a generation," with discussion about Oysterhead,
Trey Anastasio Band, and life without Phish.

First live performance
of the Oysterhead song "Radon Balloon" by Trey during a Trey
Anastasio Band show at Red Rocks. According to Trey, the song will appear
on the first Oysterhead album.

5/20/01 -- Les and
Trey join Alan Hertz:

Oysterheads Les
Claypool and Trey Anastasio sit in with Alan Hertz and Friends at the
Fourth Street Tavern in San Rafael, CA. The band consisted of Alan Hertz
(drums), Joel Behrman (trumpte), Ed Ivey (bass), Tal Morris (guitar),
and Byron Rynes (guitar). Reportedly, Les and Trey sat in for most of
the third set, with only 3-4 dozen people in attendance and at least
one taper running a 4 Mic Mix On Stage:

Efforts underway
to produce the first Oysterhead album at Trey Anastasio's Barn Studio
in Vermont. Working with Oz Fritz (Tom Waits, Primus, Bill Laswell)
at the board, recording will continue into May. Likely release date
sometime this fall coinciding with a live tour.

02/21/01 -- TAB,
The Orpheum, Boston, MA

The Trey Anastasio
Band performs the song "Happiness In My Pants" for the first
time, an Oysterhead song debuted at the 05/04/01 Saenger Theatre first
show.

09/29/00 -- Oysterhead
appearance in Las Vegas

Trey Anastasio and
Stewart Copeland take the stage with Les Claypool for an Oysterhead
reunion of sorts during a performance of Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless
Flying Frog Brigade at the House of Blues Mandalay Bay.

Set II:
Pigs on the Wing
Dogs
Pigs (3 Different Ones)
Sheep
Pigs on the Wing

Encore:
Used To Be The Owner of the World >
Smoke On The Water >
Used To Be The Owner of the World (Oysterhead, performed by Oysterhead)
Tomorrow Never Knows (Beatles, performed by FFFB & Oysterhead)

05/04/00 -- Oysterhead
in New Orleans

Coinciding with
the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Trey Anastasio (guitar,
Phish), Les Claypool (bass, Primus) and Stewart Copeland (drums, The
Police) form the band Oysterhead for a one night meltdown Oyster roast
at the Saenger Theatre.